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Sunday, 9 March 2014

Wedding preparations

No, no-one is getting married (not quite yet) - I have just been working on a couple of Antique Wedding Sampler blocks.

AWS Block #5

Block #23 has been really difficult to cut and piece, I keep making errors and it doesn't seem to add up - mind you maths is not my strong point. The instructions are for hand piecing and I am machine piecing, has anyone else had problems with this block?

I've got these stars...

But these triangles that I made up earlier are the wrong size, I think they should be 11/2" not 1"...

Oh well, 'back to the drawing board', wish me luck!

btw I won't be re-doing the stars, they took me nearly all day to make so everything is going to have fit around them!

Post script - I decided to contact Di re the pattern and there was a problem with the conversion on this block. The drawings are the right size but some of the stated measurements are incorrect. Luckily my stars are safe but the hst's need to be 1 1/2".

5 comments:

Sounds frustrating - poor you! I just had a look at my pattern in the book and Block 23 pattern piece "I" says it measures 1inch/ 2.8cm but actually measures 1 1/2 inches/ 3.8cm - checked with a ruler. Must be a little typo....